This is Leicestershire --Jon Ashworth and Liz Kendall have said they do not want the £10,000 pay rise expected to be recommended for MPs.
The Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (Ipsa), which sets MPs' pay and oversees their pensions and allowances, is due to publish proposals tomorrow.
While Ipsa has made no official comment, it is widely expected it will say MPs' pay should increase by about 15 per cent – from £66,396 – after the 2015 General Election.
Many MPs, including David Cameron and Nick Clegg, have already spoken out against Ipsa recommending an inflation-busting pay rise at a time when they are backing public sector pay restraint.
The Mercury e-mailed all nine of county MPs to ask if they thought MPs should get a pay rise and whether they would accept the money, if it is offered.
Mr Ashworth, MP for Leicester South, and Ms Kendall, MP for Leicester West, were the only ones to respond. Neither has a second job.
Mr Ashworth said: "We have a very good salary – £66,000 is a bloody good wage.
"It's much more than I was getting before I was an MP."
Mr Ashworth, who worked as an advisor to a number of politicians, including former Prime Minister Gordon Brown, said: "We are in a time of austerity and I don't think, when MPs are telling public sector workers they need to take a pay freeze, they should be getting a £10,000 raise."
Mr Ashworth did not say he would not accept a pay rise.
He said: "I do not want a pay rise. The House of Commons needs a process to deal with that."
It is likely any increase would automatically go into MPs' pay packets.
An Ipsa spokesman said: "Everyone is getting ahead of themselves. We have not recommended anything yet.
"We will not be setting 650 different salary levels. That would just not work."
He did not say if there would be a mechanism for MPs to refuse a raise.
Ms Kendall has said that is what she would do.
"I won't accept a pay rise if this is what Ipsa decides," she said.
"It would be completely wrong when so many of my constituents are desperately struggling to make ends meet and other public sector workers are having to accept a pay freeze.
"I wouldn't have a paid job outside parliament. Being an MP is more than a full-time job."
Conservative Loughborough Nicky Morgan MP and Tory colleague Sir Edward Garnier, who represents Harborough, both referred the Mercury to Ipsa, which in turn said it could not comment.
Leicester East MP Keith Vaz did not respond to the Mercury but told The Guardian: "It is up to Ipsa to consult with the public over any review.
"I would accept an increase or a decrease in pay if that is what the independent body decides.
"Money is not the motivation for becoming an MP. It is for Ipsa to decide what a comparable role in the private sector is, and pay us accordingly."
Conservative MPs Andrew Bridgen, for North West Leicestershire, Alan Duncan, for Rutland and Melton, Andrew Robathan, for South Leicestershire, and Bosworth's David Tredinnick did not respond. Reported by This is 2 days ago.